Saag aloo-style butter beans with flatbreads recipe

Created by The Tesco Recipes team
Packed with flavour, this high-fibre veggie curry takes its cue from a beloved Indian classic and transforms it into a speedy midweek winner. Seasoned with aromatic spices and served with homemade flatbreads for scooping up every last bite, it's a healthy, fuss-free recipe you'll come back to time and time again.
See method- Serves 2
- Takes 30 mins
- 725 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3cm ginger, peeled and finely grated
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped plus extra sliced chilli, to serve
- ½ tsp black mustard seeds
- 250g baby spinach, roughly chopped
- 2 x 400g tins butter beans, drained and rinsed
- 30g cashew nuts, roughly chopped
For the flatbreads
- 100g wholemeal flour plus extra for dusting
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 20g toasted mixed seeds
- 100g 0% fat Greek-style yogurt plus extra to serve
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- Energy
- 3040kJ 725.0kcal
- Fat
- 20g
- Saturates
- 3g
- Salt
- 0.8g
- Sugars
- 11g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 86.7gProtein 37.0gFibre 25.7g
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Method
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large, deep, frying pan over a medium-high heat and fry the onion for 10-12 mins until lightly golden. Add the garlic, ginger, spices and chilli for 1 more min, then tip in the spinach and butter beans with 1 tbsp water. Stir together for 2-3 mins until the spinach has wilted and the butter beans have warmed through. Season well and keep warm on a very low heat while you make the flatbreads.
- Mix the flour, baking powder and seeds together in a medium mixing bowl, then stir in the yogurt until just combined into a wet dough. Divide the dough into 2 balls, then roll each out on a floured surface to about 20 cm diameter.
- Dry fry each flatbread in a large frying pan set over a medium high heat for 3 mins on each side until cooked through and lightly blistered on the outside. Serve with the butter beans, a scattering of cashew nuts, the sliced chilli and a dollop of yogurt.
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